What is a Jeff Goldblum, tell him one day he'll be fascinated. "For all the love I bear Andraste and the Maker, the Chantry itself is something of a barrier to the work some of us wish to do, though where I am from? We've done things differently enough that we truly rival Orlais when it comes to how we see the world. Ah, forgive me, Octavian Nestor Sokolov but please, just call me Tavin, everybody does." Only his parents when they're in one of those parenting sorts of moods, complete strangers or professors call him Octavian, what a mouthful of a name.

"A division for research? Truly, I have come to the right place at just the right time. What exactly do you study? I-- I cannot imagine what things lie beyond, is it possible to study what you do? I have a great many papers on dragons though those on the Blight were regrettably not published though I have kept all my research, of course." There's possibly a chance someone might need to go fetch smelling salts for all this excitement.